St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-08


has perennial Jersey bovine flow, he is
is left to blush unseen at Valley City.
George Walsh, of Grand Forks, one of the
pioneers and veterans, a model of classic
grace-who never dropped pictures from
his Sleeye-and who has the past year trav-
eled over half the territory to keep up with
the farmers procession lie no more holds
hand i'll Quartette Oh the way to the
capital. One more from the North
may be recalled-the elongated rus
tic statesman -Jud La Moure
The tide of rising civilization swept by and
the old land III ark is now referred to as a
once prominent politician of Pembina, who,
in his retirement finds recreation in train
ing pet bears. From the South are missed
j. Hem Westover, the president of the
last council; Maj. Pichier, the ladies' man
and eloquent champion of their right to vote
and bare arms-his impromptu post pran-
dial tribute to the sex was always regarded
as one of the most artistic and laboriously
wrought efforts of the kind. The suave
and mellow-hearted Marsh Ward still lin
gers far south in the halo of bliSsful
DOMESTIC ROMANCE.
The portly and jovial Capt. Wagner, of
Bon Homme; the brave, wiry captain Of
Sherman's scouts at Elk Point; the full
orbed politician, Pettigrew. are but Iegisla.
tive "reminiscences. So far as members
passing by from the South are concerned,
it is noted that they know nothing Of the
scheme proclaimed with so much assurance
from few points in the Huron state limits,
to repeal the capital commission act and
resolve the seat OF government back to
Yankton to remain until some state is
formed. This is believed by those familiar
with the situation to be one of the bluffs
put out in the interest of the South
Dakota state. and especially to check any
influences that might be put forth
North to influence the passage of the
Springer bill in congress. Any element in
the legislature really in favor of taking the
capital from Bismarck, is not likely to be
large enough to amount to much.
twill not control majority of
tine legislature, probably not even
ma oritY of the Southern members. If
favored by any considerable number 1t will
be but a scare to accomplish some hidden
purpose. 1t may be set down as one of
the immutable facts-even more immutable
than Denny Hannatin's piety-that while
Dakota remains one territory Bismarck will
be is capital. Why not? Some think its
location on the border of civilization. amid
a scanty population, remote from any con-
siderable town-a hundred miles from
Jamestown-is Objectionable, but
THERE ARE ADVANTAGES
in this. In some states, Illinois for in
stance, it is so easy for the members to run
home that they cannot be kept in working
force at the capitol more than about three
days in the week. In Dakota four-fifthS of
the members Of the legislature go to the
capital to stay the entire session. If they
do not take their wives and children with
them they bid them a tender adieu. as the
soldier boys did their home ones when they
went to war; and in many cases make their
wills. 1t is the more judcous way, how
ever. for the prudent wives to go with their
legislative lords, although Bismarck is not
great city, and is not sup
posed to have more harmful en-
Elements than the geysers of fire,
dazzling meteoric displays or marvellous
mirages discovered by the wonderfully
versatile humorst Capt Quinn-but there
are long evenings in this latitude, and the
toboggan from the Capitol hill to the city
will not absorb them-social buZZards fol-
low them-but it is not necessary to follow
the unsavory lead. A leading member of
the legislature from one of the James river
counties remarked to-day that, while the
capital would remain undiSturbed at Bis
marck as long as the territory continued,
when stateheea~was reached, whether as
one or two, then would come the tussle.
He says in case the territory should be
divided and the North come in as a state,
then Bismarck would have to et
FIGHT DESPERATELY
TO retain the capital. This city would be
its most formidable competition, being as
near the center of the future population of
the North as possible to secure with the
needed railroad access. Bismarck will, he
says, as the North settles up, become even
less central to the population than it now is
He advances numerous points in support of
this statement. In case of admission as
one state. he insists that the capital would
still be located on the James, but south of
the forty-siXth parallel. Gov. Church will
be welcomed in the North next week, and
especially at Bismarck, with more than
cordially, positive enthusiasm in fact. 1t is
not expected that he will take any radical
measures, OF make wholesale changes
in offices at once. But it is expected that
when he has patronage to bestoW he will
remember that he is Democrat and that
he Is the agent of Democratic administra-
ton. The people do not look for or want
any mongrel mugwumpery-but an I'M
equiyocal Democratic dispensation, Until
the election of Cleveland it never occurred
to Gov. Pierce that there were any Demo-
Gratis in Dakota, and even since very few
have been appointed to any positiOn-one
| railroad commissioner and Attorney General
| Engle, with two or three trusteeships, about
comprise the list. 1t is noted here that
there is a good deal of criticism of one of
the recent unofficial publications of Gov.
Pierce in regard to the Springer bill. He
probably
HAD NOT READ THE BILL
or he would not ask why Mr.. Springer
could not provide for holding a cOnstittl-
tional convention next winter-when that
is exactly what is provided. The retiring
official, in his Quibbling mood, also asks
why the state could not be admitted the
next Spring-that of 1SSS-by proclamation
of the president. There are precedents for
that course, but the usual way is for con-
| greSs to determine whether there has been
a sufficient compliance with the terms pre-
scribed. Under his plan there would be no
time for the people to dissect, discuss and
digest the work of the convention and de-
termine whether they would first accept it..
AS the constitutional convention would not
conclude its laborS before spring unless
the appropriation was exhausted, the
period to the regular November election
is not an eXtravagant delay, especially as
1t saves the expense of an extra election.
1t is a reasonable presumption that the re-
firing executive knows unot1icially that no
new state can possibly be admitted before
the presidential election, as neither party is
willing to have uncertain factors introdu 3ed
in contest that promises to be very close.
If the governor feels like kicking over this
fact, it may enable him to point to a news
paper paragraph-but the fact remains like
a stone walls. If the governor is really, as
claimed in favor of admission as one state,